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Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook

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This book is gorgeous. My husband and I are new parents and it has been a joy to sing these clasic lullabies for our new son. The CD is marketed by amazon under the classical music section. It's entitled Lullabies: A songbook companion. It is beautifully recorded. The set is the perfect gift for new parents.

This book should be given with the CD (ESS.A.Y 1054) also made by Kapp. The combination is one of the finest presents imaginable for first-time parents. The same lullabies are sung by a fine professional soprano, Julianne Baird, and by Kapp's daughter Madeline. Mela Tenenbaum plays violin and viola and Kapp is at the piano, sometimes joining the singing. What joy and pleasure! How could amazon.com have failed to promote the two items together?

This beautiful book has gorgeous slick illustrations from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as clearly printed piano scoring to accompany the lullabies. It is by far the best book of its kind I've seen. I send it to every new baby on my list and hope it never goes out of print!

This collection is a "must have" for anyone who believes that music enhances both learning and bonding experiences for children of all ages.

I purchased this book and accompanying CD for my 5 month old son. Four months later, he still loves the music. My husband and I sing a few songs to him every night as part of his bed time ritual, and then we play a few songs from the CD when we tuck him in. There are also a few livelier pieces for daytime play. As I expected, my son is still a bit young to appreciate the artwork, but the diverse illustrations will make a nice learning tool later.

BTW- If you're bothered by the fact that the song order on the CD doesn't match that of the book, save it to your computer's hard drive, convert the files to MP3s, and change the order manually. Problem solved.

A beautiful book! Wonderful to have, especially if you read music. As a new parent, I love it and highly recommend it.If you want to learn more songs to sing to your children, this is a very special way to do it.

This book gives a decent selection of common and not so common lullabies - so if you are looking to expand your repetoir - this book is for you. If you can't read music or play an intrument - a quick search on youtube will provide you with examples of the lullaby in question to help you sing it your self. The art work is nice. Most songs only have one verse - I would have liked the other verses as well.

Beautiful, lovely book of lullabies and incredible illustrations. Wonderful for gift-giving to new parents.

Mom or Dad would need an amazing vocal range to do justice the wide variety of material on this lovely collection. And it doesn't hurt baby to get an early introduction to good music.

These are not the optimal performances of the individual works, but it's a great start for a child's musical library.

Nice ilustration

Good if you would like to play lullabies, and the pictures are super. I like the tape of Golden Slumbers in the book section but its really songs, and better ones then are on Lullabies.